What Would Leopold Bloom Do? Volume 4
Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »
Looking into a Magic Mirror: On My Unusual Words and Phrases
Copy editing isn’t just catching typos and mistakes (though it certainly involves quite a bit of that) but also unifying stylistic choices like when numbers are spelled out or how… Read more »
Season’s Greetings—and suggested reading—from the Melville House team
MobyLives is going on a short holiday hiatus—we’ll be back and debuting our Spring 2016 titles on Monday, January 4th. In the meantime, check out recommendations from the Melville House staff for your winter… Read more »
Congrats to our #TitleYourHoliday winners!
Last week we asked you to #TitleYourHoliday by telling us which book best describes your holiday season for a chance to win MHP’s Holiday Survival galley bundle—three of our upcoming Spring 2016… Read more »
The 100 best British novels, as chosen by international critics
In this season of “Best of” lists, BBC Culture has outdone everyone. Rather than produce a list of the best books of the year, BBC has compiled a list of… Read more »
What Would Leopold Bloom Do? Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »
Kevin Barry wins the Goldsmiths Prize as it awaits its first English winner
The Irish author Kevin Barry has won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize for his novel Beatlebone. Barry was awarded the prize on Wednesday evening, and is the third recipient of the… Read more »
Contraband Cocktail Hour: Alexander
Some years ago, at a flea market in Florida, Paul Dickson happened upon the Prohibition Era’s little black book—a six-ring binder filled with cocktail recipes dating to a period when even books on mixing… Read more »
Slavoj Žižek calls Tavis Smiley “The Big One”
If you’re interested in hearing the brilliant, sometimes-contentious Slovenian philosopher and Melville House author Slavoj Žižek discuss political correctness, the 2008 financial crisis, and what he sees as one of Malcolm X’s… Read more »
MH author screws up, forcing us to placate fictional character
We received the following letter: Dear Melville House, I come to you with a heavy, litigious heart. Some weeks ago I was sent an advance copy of Sophia, a so-called… Read more »